Re: [Rd] ChangeLog for R packages {was "Wish list"}

Byron Ellis Thu, 22 Jan 2004 15:00:57 -0800

An R structure wouldn't be bad either---you can output whatever format you want and less reliance on other languages can't hurt. For that matter I wouldn't be averse to seeing DESCRIPTION going that way (not that its all that difficult to parse I suppose). In any case, while I'm thinking about it, ?DESCRIPTION would be handy.

On Jan 22, 2004, at 1:21 PM, Robert Gentleman wrote:

On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 11:37:26AM -0600, Luke Tierney wrote:
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 06:48:04 -0800, you wrote:

Some of us don't mind using XML because it gives us much more flexibility to do interesting things with our data quite easily at the expense of a little markup.
Would it be easy to write a function that read the XML and produced
something like the current NEWS format?
If that's easy, then one option is to suggest that people keep the
original source in XML, with the BUILD process doing the conversion,
but allow people to edit the human-readable version directly if they
prefer.
Duncan TL's suggestion to use Using R for the mark-up structure seems
very reasonable to me.  Asking package authors to write in XML
directly, or anything that would make doing that the path of least
resistance, is I think a non-starter.
  I agree completely. We need to be careful about making package
  writing more difficult than it already is (and for some it is
  very difficult).
Robert
luke

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